Ontario has a large electricity surplus, yet Ontario Power Generation wants to continue to run the aging Pickering Nuclear Plant. This factsheet shows that much of the power Pickering produces isn’t needed and that the remainder can easily be replaced by cleaner, safer and lower cost sources.

Ontario’s nuclear plants are the country’s largest source of dangerous tritium emissions and the Pickering plant is the worst of the worst. This radioactive isotope is produced — and released to the atmosphere — constantly by CANDU nuclear reactors. Once tritium is inside us, because we breathe it in, absorb it through skin or consume contaminated food or water, it release radioactivity in our bodies. Read the factsheet on Ontario Nuclear’s Tritium Problem.

Immediately beginning the decommissioning and dismantling of the Pickering Nuclear Station after closure can create jobs and save us hundreds of millions of dollars. It is also the safest way to return this toxic site to useable green space on the Pickering waterfront.

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About the OCAA

The Ontario Clean Air Alliance (OCAA), established in 1997, successfully led the campaign to phase out the use of dirty coal power in Ontario. We are now working to move our province to a 100% renewable electricity system.